Passion by D.J. VLK

For a period around the turn of the millennium, D.J. VLK was a regular viewer of the daytime NBC paranormal television series Passions, which he would watch either alone, often while eating an egg and cheese sandwich from the deli around the corner, or in the company of his downstairs neighbors (who were also fans of the program and actually the ones who had introduced him to it in the first place) before catching a minibus to work on the dinner shift at an Italian restaurant with a French name which was (badly) managed by a former actor who had appeared in a few episodes of a different soap opera some years earlier. On this release, D.J. VLK uses ONLY sounds from the original 2051 episodes of the show (no sounds from Passions: Season 9, which was broadcast exclusively on DirectTV, are included on this tape). The sounds are then processed using modern digital DJ technologies and mixed together to create something akin to a new (the 2232nd) episode of Passions, not to be watched on television (D.J. VLK is not a daytime television producer!), but to be listened to on a cassette tape, either alone or with your downstairs neighbors.

“Passion” follows other semi-autobiographical DJ mixes by the artist including “Avril and Sean in Canden” (2017) and “Nun Darme Stu Turmiento” (2021), as well as the picaresque travelogue “Ballerman Partykeller” (2020).

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